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Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debu...
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The Third Republic, known as the belle époque, was a period of lively, articulate and surpris...
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The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was on...
This is the first full-length study of the films of François Ozon, director of such diverse films...
Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has...
Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was amon...